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Lab News ...June 2008. NIH R01 Research Grant to our lab, in collaboration with Prof. Marc Halfon's lab at SUNY Buffalo! This grant will fund our research on "high sensitivity discovery of cis-regulatory modules". May 2008. NSF CAREER Award, for our research on Probabilistic frameworks for studying gene regulatory sequences and their evolution May 2008. CSE Fellowship awarded to graduate student Jin Tae Kwak. This fellowship, funded by the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) program, will undertake preliminary research on "Computational methods for cancer diagnosis from FTIR spectroscopy data" in collaboration with Prof. Rohit Bhargava's lab (BioEngineering). December 2007. Aging Reversal Project with Prof. Howard Chang's lab at Stanford. Our motif map method was instrumental in identifying NF-kb as a key player in the aging process.
August 2007. NCSA Faculty Fellowship to the PI will fund one year's work on exploring grid computation for understanding social behavior in honeybees. July 2006. Honey Bee Project with Prof. Gene Robinson's lab. Our lab's work on the honey bee genome, published in PNAS as a companion paper to the main genome paper in Nature, has been kindly received by the news media. Here are some venues where this work was covered.
March 2006. The First UIUC Bioinformatics Summit. Talks archived here. PI's profile on UIUC Engineering News PI's profile on Daily Illini article |
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